Political ad ignites conservative anger over women possibly hiding their votes from their husbands
Political ad ignites conservative anger over women possibly hiding their votes from their husbands
Conservative pundits are in disbelief and outrage at the highly circulated video, which aimed to show women that their husbands can’t see if they vote for Kamala Harris.
Summary
A video encouraging women to vote independently for Kamala Harris sparked outrage among conservative men, who called it divisive and “amoral.” The video highlights the gender gap that has widened between Harris and Trump, with recent polls showing notable leads by Harris among women and Trump among men.
Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
Supporters argue it reflects real tensions around women’s autonomy, especially in conservative households.
Good lord they're really telling on themselves with this one aren't they?
4So it is "amoral" to tell women that they can make their own decisions. Thanks for clearing that up, Newt.
27I can't imagine (as a unmarried guy) living in a marriage where my wife would be afraid to tell me who she voted for. Even if she votes Trump, she's my spouse, and that comes way before that. She should chew me out if I make her feel afraid.
...It makes me feel shame for the culture some men are raised in.
22I don't know. If my wife voted for Trump she knows I'd leave her, so I can imagine she wouldn't tell me if she did. Not to mention she'd have to have been lying about her entire personality the whole time we knew eachother XD.
6I’d you’re married to someone who has opposite political views than you , your marriage probably has a lot of issues and voting secrecy is way down on the list. You don’t need to be perfectly aligned but mostly.
4Depends upon how extreme the differences are. Arnold Schwarzenegger - who's a moderate Republican (thankfully supporting Harris) - was married to Maria Shriver from the infamously Democrat-heavy Kennedy family for well over a quarter century. Bill Clinton's (in)famous campaign adviser, James Carville, had been married to a well known Republican counterpart (Mary Matalin) since the early '90s.
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At this course, the US Taleban is about to meet the handmaid's tale...
23I'm willing to take bets that sometime in the Future there will be a call from Republicans for a new law that allows husbands to see how their wives have voted.
To protect Family values.... And to stop disharmony in the marriage.....
And, of course, to prevent voter fraud.......
45If the Conservatives had their way, women would not be allowed to vote at all. Unfortunately, that still seems to be one of their goals. I mean, Trump and his henchmen have already made sure that women are no longer allowed to control their own bodies, which I have to admit I thought was impossible in a Western country. What makes you think they're going to leave it at taking away women's right to a secret ballot? These people want to reverse advances in civilization like women's right to vote all together. That's what conservative means to them: back to the Middle Ages. In this sense, they are little different from other religious extremists such as the Taliban. Their goals might be a little different but their means are pretty much the same.
19If conservatives had their way, men would vote on behalf of their wives and unmarried adult daughters.
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..... and this kids is a great example of why you should support encryption.
30This is why you should know who you marry before you get married.
Stop letting regressive religion control your lives.
25Religious people typically enforce their oppression with abuse and violence.
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Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
And just why does she have to lie about it to her "sweet" husband?...
12probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life
Yeah, she probably sits on her ass all day anyway. The kids raise themselves! The audacity of these women to have been born with an ungrateful vagina smh
4My wife would beat the shit out of me if I didn’t vote for Kamala, and I’d deserve it, and enjoy it.
3More like rotten
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In a functioning democracy, a vote should be secret by default, and that should be the social expectation. If you wanna tell people, sure, but not in a way where your actual vote can be proven.
21they cannot say they did not see it coming after the loud royal fucking theyve been crowing about for so long
5Sooo if you're a potential husband with a penis, vote for Trump for the following reasons:
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Guaranteed husbandry or at least fatherhood. Just go out there and fuck someone, they gotta have the kid no matter what. Your cum is valuable.
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Ah yes. You think I forget? You can grab them by the pussy....if you're famous. So go out there, fuck somebody, be famous and grab them by the pussy!
3)Earn a second vote. You heard me right. You can't incriminate each other and therefore her vote is your vote.
Now go out there and vote! Vote Trump! Fight the enemy within. It's just not right! Bikini at the pool and allowed to vote? Heck no! Women should be prepared for being attached to a 4x4 in the bedroom permanently for the sole purpose of making love to the man. And sometimes for having babies, but hurry up with that, and don't feed babies breast milk at the park. And those naked things that happen in California the gay, Oregon and the independent country of Washington State, those gotta go!
11You fucking imbecile. If women are locked in the bedroom how can they make dinner?? Moran
15Fuck! I don't know, I'm just an engineer. Maybe roller skate wheels. It's a complex design. I'm thinking sex swing hung from a gantry that you can move around the house as you see fit to place the woman where you decide the woman should be at. But you would still need to immobilizer her. They don't really like being permanently glued to things. You might end up with broken dinner ware. Lobotomy gets you 90% of the way. Maybe republicans can figure it out for us. Like if women were not allowed to sing or hear the voice of other women, that would be a step in the wright direction.
5You Moran, you just put a cot in the kitchen next to the laundry machines!
/s for the oblivious.
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What about the husband vote cancelling out the wives vote?
Both humans have agency. If you are going to frame the issue as treachery, then the husband shouldn't vote against his wife. Or, is the husband owed two votes and the wife none?
Fuck that.
98They believe if you do not earn money or earn insignificant amount then you do not deserve to vote or have a say in politics. You can estimate their thoughts and actions based on this simple starting point.
31Yokels voting for Trump be like "Yeah I'm earning the 5$/h so I make the big decisions in this House!"
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That's so weird that the nazi husbands who would give their wife a black eye for voting for kamala would fly into a rage about something.
231It's bonkers that the people who can't stfu about FREEDOMS are the ones who want to strip everyone else's away
15Waiting for the article from the NYT about how this is bad for Harris' polling with police officers.
92As we always said when the Volunteers lost to Alabama: "Lot of women are going to be falling down stairs tonight."
It wasn't funny then either :(
36A lot of doors are gonna carelessly be left open 🫤
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Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
These idiots really miss the fact that most women can, and, in fact, must work. This idea of a "sweet" husband who works to provide for his family is so outdated it's absurd.
125Yeah but he makes more for the same work so obviously he's more important...
7That's actually true in some of their cases, because they don't have anything else to offer the family.
I'm willing to bet a lot of these people can't cook, never clean and are insecure because they jerked around in high school.
Unfortunately for them, I agree. Better educated women are making people like Kirk obsolete. In the past, the only thing they had to offer was steady income, but now that women are often making more than many of them and are better educated, they feel threatened. So the only thing they have left is pretending women are dumb
2That does still apply to rich people, which is why I suspect so many of these idiots still think this way. Surely everyone has the means THEY have!
36Surely everyone has the means THEY have!
And if they don't--fuck em. They obviously don't work hard enough while spending their few shekels on fancy toast and bubble tea or some shit
9Only the people that matter have the means they have.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., joined the criticism Thursday, telling Fox News that Democrats are telling wives to lie to their husbands: “What kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed?”
Ah yes, the guy who has cheated on multiple wives is talking about amorality and corruption.
139He's not the only conservative paragon of virtue that's having a hissy-fit over it either:
Fox News host Jesse Watters said on the air last week that if his wife did the same as the women in the ad, it would violate “the sanctity of our marriage.”
“If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Watters said, a remark that prompted many online to call him out for his marital affair, which he admitted to in 2018.
23Not just an affair, an affair with his current wife he was calling out. Who he started the affair by being a massive stalker and letting air out of her tires so she'd ask him for a ride.
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it's not "cheating" if the husband does it. it's "the wife is being frigid and insufferable and i had no choice but to fuck whoever else"
from the party of "it's not rape if he's your husband"
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Awww your wife isn't your property?? 😢
110The guy who helped create the ad even says
“They took a person’s sanctity of their ballot and turned it into a conversation about men owning the behaviors of the women in their life,” Pagitt said. “And like, well, I didn’t think you were going to make our point for us. We’re very grateful that you did.”
73we're entering a dangerous territory where women are being treated like people ... think of where this slippery slope can go ... /s
29Before ya know it, the frogs are gay!
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This is the Bear vs a Strange man all over again and they still don’t get it.
40It's the worm in the head.
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Yes. Yes, rage against this. Feed your anger. How dare they?!?!?! Feed the Streisand effect. Spread this idea. Let it engage you!! Oh, I know. Rant about it to your wife. Tell her all about this evil idea. Tell her what those other independent women are doing. Yeah. Get good and mad /S
74It was a goofy thing to do, that probably made it harder for all the women out there in relationships like this. Every woman knew she could do this, but now because Jimbo saw this ad, he's that much more likely to beat the shit out of her to get her to confess how she voted because she smiled wrong when she walked away from the booth.
I think it was a bad move.
-3Suddenly, Republicans become a fan of mail in ballots, so they can "audit" their families votes...
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husbandspouse does this, you can always cancel your mail-in ballot and cast a provisional ballot in person.7I think they only want mail-in ballots for straight, white males. I have a feeling they would not be okay with mail-in ballots for people who aren't straight, or aren't white, or aren't male.
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Even more reason for these women to independently vote for Kamala Harris. F Jimbo.
8Nah bro. It sparked more women to think for themselves and vote for Kamala
0Of course, how could I be so dense? Women can't think for themselves unless a commercial tells them to do it.
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That headline again: "Party of Snowflakes Melt"
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91LOL does this come in a bumper sticker?
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It's not hiding when it's supposed to be a secret. A woman voting her own beliefs should be the first step out of that kind of controlling relationship.
61I have a relative who lives in subsidized housing and just got a new neighbor who is freshly divorced due to his wife being a Democrat. Sounds like she won for sure because from what I hear about this dude he sounds like a miserable, insufferable individual
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Party that repealed Roe v Wade and constantly talks about shooting liberals is now angry that their wives might be afraid of telling them how they vote, more news at 10
48Wow, who knew the fascist party supporters would be against women having political autonomy.
39Are there really that many people lonely enough to put up with being married to a Trump supporter when they don't also drink that trad wife koolaid?
1Next up, they’re going to try and force women into wearing bedsheets cuz, you know, they can’t keep it in their pants when they see a modestly attractive woman go by in normal clothes.
42They'll probably soon start suggesting women shouldn't hear other women's voices. Very Taliban. Very cool. -GOP
17Y'all'kaida
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Anyone who is mad about the possibility of someone hiding who they voted for, is part of the reason it needs to be reiterated in the first place.
33That ad was gold. Brilliant idea.
24"you might have to give your female properties an extra black eye tonight!"
-GOP
24Good.
24Oh no, they realize they might not have complete control over their little world! Heavens to murgatroyd!
14Found Waldo!
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